Welcome to our virtual exhibit for the American Literature Association!
We are sorry not to meet you this year at the American Literature Association in San Diego. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are available in print via print on demand and as e-books! Please browse and follow the links to shop!
- Available in print at 40% off. Use coupon code NR18
- Available in e-book
- New & forthcoming
- Essential backlist
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books related to American literature studies.
- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
- Acquisitions Editor Ryan Peterson
Out of concern for the health, safety, and well-being of our staff, and in response to a statewide order closing all non-life-sustaining businesses, PSU Press has suspended warehouse operations until further notice and will not be shipping physical books during this time. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
Available in print
Use coupon code NR18 for 40% off!
The Enthymeme
Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric
James Fredal
The Paradoxes of Posterity
Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Love in a Time of Slaughters
Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
Susan McHugh
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader
Writings by an Early American Polymath
Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert
The Writings of Elizabeth Webb
A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726
Edited by Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Erik M. Bachman
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Steven Carl Smith
Available as an e-book
Babel of the Atlantic
Edited by Bethany Wiggin
Pet Projects
Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
Elizabeth Young
Queering Mennonite Literature
Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community
Daniel Shank Cruz
The Politics of the Book
A Study on the Materiality of Ideas
Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Edited by Cécile Fromont
Here in This Island We Arrived
Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York
Elisabeth H. Kinsley
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Erica Rhodes Hayden
The Quakers, 1656–1723
The Evolution of an Alternative Community
By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore
The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
Samantha Baskind
Landscape into Eco Art
Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s
Mark Cheetham
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Lori Cole
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Tracy Fessenden
Graphic Reproduction
A Comics Anthology
Edited by Jenell Johnson, Afterword by Susan Merrill Squier
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Owen S. Ireland
Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi and Simone Natale
Study in Black and White
Photography, Race, Humor
Tanya Sheehan
The Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola
Reading Shaver’s Creek
Ecological Reflections from an Appalachian Forest
Edited by Ian Marshall
Taking Turns
Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
MK Czerwiec
Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio
Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, Edited with an introduction by Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Speaking to Body and Soul
Instructions for the Moravian Choir Helpers, 1785–1786
Edited and translated by Katherine M. Faull
Among the Woo People
A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town
Russell Frank
Supernatural Entertainments
Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture
Simone Natale
Where Honeybees Thrive
Stories from the Field
Heather Swan
Nothing but Love in God's Water
Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
Robert Darden
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Robert Darden
Ernest Hemingway
A New Life
James M. Hutchisson
My Degeneration
A Journey Through Parkinson’s
Peter Dunlap-Shohl
The Salem Belle
A Tale of 1692
Ebenezer Wheelwright, Edited, with an introduction and notes by Richard Kopley
Religion Around Emily Dickinson
W. Clark Gilpin
New & Forthcoming books
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
PathoGraphics
Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community
Edited by Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
A Material World
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
Edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta M. Lovell
Aliceheimer’s
Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass
Dana Walrath
Against Our Will
Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970
Vivien Green Fryd
The Book of Sarah
Sarah Lightman
Life Support
Invitation to Prayer
Judith Cohen Margolis
Bells for America
The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington
Diederik Oostdijk
Shattered Objects
Djuna Barnes’s Modernism
Edited by Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz
The Shape of Difficulty
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
Bret L. Rothstein
Pier Groups
Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront
Jonathan Weinberg
The Lady Doctor
Ian Williams
Essential backlist
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
Shale Play
Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields
Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin
Escaping Wars and Waves
Encounters with Syrian Refugees
Olivier Kugler
A Thousand Coloured Castles
Gareth Brookes
The Facts of Life
Paula Knight
Henry James and American Painting
Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson, and Declan Kiely
Hole in the Heart
Bringing Up Beth
Henny Beaumont
The Walking Med
Zombies and the Medical Image
Edited by Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint, Foreword by Steven C. Schlozman
The Bad Doctor
The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James
Ian Williams
Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park
. . . When You’re 29 and Unemployed
Aneurin Wright
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies, graphic studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, Graphic Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory History
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of American studies, and rhetoric and communication studies. His book series include American Music History Book Series, Humor in America, Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, and RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
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